Unfortunately, only three issues of Karnataka Samachara were released. Karnataka Samachara was the first Kannada newspaper to be printed using movable type. Karnataka Samachara was first released on and in fact it was the 15th issue of Mangalooru Samachara.
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The newspaper became popular and it was decided to shift its publication to the city of Bellary where it was renamed as Karnataka Samachara. There are conflicting reports on whether this newspaper was used by Mögling as a tool for proselytisation or not. Even songs of Purandaradasa and moral stories were also printed. Some of the news items covered were local Mangalore-related news, Indian population, news related to the East India Company and its laws and regulations.
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Thereafter it was published fortnightly and contained 4 pages. He decided to name it as Mangaluura samaachaara and its first issue rolled out on 1 July 1843. He decided to publish a Kannada newspaper with the intention of spreading news items to the public. In the days of Mögling's career at Mangalore, there was no simple way of communicating news and other items to the general public because of non-existence of a medium like radio and of a newspaper in the native language. One of his pioneering works was the publication of the first Kannada newspaper, Mangalooru Samachara (meaning Mangalore News). Mögling, being a Christian missionary, was involved in missionary related work in Mangalore but he also learnt the native Kannada language and contributed significantly to Kannada literature. In 7 years, in 1843, Mögling had mastered Kannada, and went on to start the first Kannada newspaper - Mangalura Samachara. He came to the city of Mangalore in Karnataka as a missionary of Basel Mission in 1836. He studied theology at the University of Tübingen and joined the Basel Mission. Hermann Mögling was born in 1811 in the town of Brackenheim in the Kingdom of Württemberg, Germany. He and his wife Pauline( Nee Bacmeister) laid the foundations for the Evangelical parish and Anandapur, a village made out of jungle in the interior of Karnataka.
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He was the founder-principal of BEM Theological Seminary, later renamed as Karnataka Theological College. Mögling is acknowledged by Kannada writers and linguists as the first modern Kannada writer, as he produced nearly 36 literary works, considered to be ground-breaking and exceptional Kannada literature, in a short period of 20 years. He also translated Kannada literature into German. He was awarded a doctorate for his literary work in Kannada called as Bibliotheca Carnataca. He is credited as the publisher of the first ever newspaper in the Kannada language called as Mangalooru Samachara in 1843. Hermann Friedrich Mögling (1811–1881), also spelt Herrmann Friedrich Moegling, was a German missionary from the Basel Mission who spent most of his career in the western regions of the state of Karnataka, India.